How Can You Pay Back The Kindness I Raised With Obsession?

Nothing happened last night. Elliot, who stayed up all night with his eyes open, knew best that there were no beasts, let alone monsters snooping around.

“You look tired.”

“No, not at all.”

As the nanny, who had been close behind him, spoke to him as she followed the footprints on the moss, Elliot replied bluntly.

“Did I disturb your sleep last night?”

At that, Elliot remembered last night when he went to bed. He could hear the rustling of bookshelves behind him, and the occasional groaning. The nanny was decoding her magic formula.

“Ja.”

“But, ah!”

Elliot turned around and snatched the magic book, which the nanny had spread out on her floor, and blew out her candle. Then he turned back and went to sleep. He heard the rustling of a blanket behind his back, and soon there was the sound of light breathing. But even after the noise stopped, Elliot couldn’t sleep. The reason he couldn’t sleep was Hazel’s fault after all.

“Here.”

Elliot, who finished his flashback, pointed at the wide rock in front of him. The two were on their way to check the magic ceremony again. Elliot murmured as he looked back deep into the woods as the nanny contrasted yesterday’s copy on parchment with the engraving on the rock.

“What was the wizard trying to do here?”

In fact, she seemed to already know something vaguely. Even from whom the magician was instigated. While outside, the two decided to follow the wizard’s trail. After following the wizard’s footsteps and coming back to the forest road, there was no trace left of the dry ground. However…

“They say an old human man in a long suit went over there.”

How did she know? The nanny, who was staring at the titmouse perched on her branch, pointed to a fork in the road heading north.

“Do you know how to talk to birds?”

“Yes, now I can easily do it with small animals.”

“Then, is there any animal that knows what code the magician used to activate that expression?”

“Oh, yes!”

The nurse spoke again to the titmouse, which sat on her hand and ate some grains of rice. She called the titmouse and even the chickadee’s cousin to meet her, but none of the birds knew what the wizard had said. In fact, she was great just for finding out where the wizard was headed. Guided by small animals, from birds to squirrels, the two were at a loss for words as soon as they discovered the clearing hidden among the dense vines.

“That… what is it?”

Seeing the grotesque appearance of huge sand-colored rocks jutting out all over the clearing, the nanny asked in a low voice.

“The nest of man-eating bees.”

The man-eating bee was a monster found only in the eastern part of the empire, close to the desert. Also, it was awarded. Elliot surveyed the clearing along the edge. This habitat was artificially planted, as she saw nests rising at regular intervals around a large gray rock in the middle. There was a feeling of the background, so now there must be physical evidence. Elliot dug into the low mound at the edge of the habitat.

“As expected.”

Inside the mound were three eggs of a man-eating bee that failed to hatch because the temperature here was unsuitable. He felt the magical power as if he was trying to artificially hatch it.

“This is obviously…”

Besides, the shape of the egg was familiar. At the request of the Emperor, the eggs of the cannibal bees collected during the previous monster subjugation were donated to the Imperial Palace Wizards for research. The egg, pattern, and color were similar.

“As expected, the one who planted the monster is Gerald.”

“What?”

The nurse opened her eyes in surprise and muttered:

“I thought he was quiet after the relic theft…” she said.

He thought so too. He even said he didn’t have a sacred object anymore, so why does he keep pestering him? It seemed that they were attacking him for a different purpose this time.

“They stopped raiding the Grand Duke and then attacked the duchy.”

This egg was proof of that. Bring it back and check it against the records, and it would be convincing evidence. It was the moment Elliot picked up an egg that had failed to hatch.

Krrr.

The beast’s menacing growl echoed through the clearing. He looked up in the direction of the sound and let out a short sigh.

“You woke the troll.”

What he thought was a gray rock was a sleeping troll. The wizard had left a hand to protect the nest.

“Uh, what should I do?”

“All of these, move them to me.”

This weight could even be carried by a nanny. Elliot calmly gave instructions to the bewildered nanny as she watched the troll raise his head. It was the moment the egg disappeared from the nest in an instant. As the troll rolled the fist-sized Black Eye this way, he grabbed the nanny’s hand.

“Run!”

The troll, which had become more ferocious after losing its eggs, raised its huge body and broke the nest at random, chasing after the two. As a result, the man-eating bees, who had lost their homes, became angry and pursued the troll, making the situation even worse.

“Don’t you know how to use shield magic?”

Elliot asked the nanny, deflecting the stingers of the bees with his sword and ducking down to avoid the trees and rocks the trolls pulled out and threw at them.

“I haven’t learned that yet!”

‘Damn it’

He knew how to create a shield with his holy power, but he couldn’t. He must not let anyone find out that he possesses holy power. Even though he had the power to wipe out the chasing hordes of monsters at once, Elliot held his sword. Not knowing where he was going, he ran aimlessly and stumbled over a thicket of raspberries. The blue sky spread before his eyes. With the precipice just three steps ahead of him.

Krrrr.

The troll’s angry growl could be heard behind them as they stood on the edge of the cliff. It was too close.

“Come this way.”

Elliot grabbed the nanny’s hand again and ran into the bush to the right, just as the two trees opposite her cracked, boom! and fell on both sides. The troll stopped in place and thrust his head forward. The two of them hid in the brush and held their breath while the troll opened its huge nostrils to smell the humans. But as luck would have it, the troll stepped over the bush and towards the cliff as if it had smelled it. With countless man-eating bee stings hanging from its back, the troll was in the shape of his hedgehog. It was a pity that the cannibal bee’s venom did not work on trolls.

“Lol…”

The troll, having located the two, laughed like an idiot. Now they have to fight head-on.

“Please step back.”

Elliot begged the nanny and ran out of the bush. When the troll found him, he snorted and swung his fist, and Elliot lowered himself and slid between his legs, slashing the troll’s leg. The monster’s screams of agony echoed through the valley. He stumbled and hoped to fall off the cliff, but the troll stumbled a few steps toward the forest and stood tall again.

“Damn it…”

Trolls were very resilient. Elliot could see that his deep cuts were already healing. He had to be beheaded or had his heart cut out to be killed completely.

“Hee hee, hee hee.”

He held his breath and waited for an opportunity to attack again, but the troll started acting strangely. It was winking, scratching and laughing at his body. As if someone was tickling it. 

When his eyes landed on the other side, he could see why. When he told her to stay behind him, the nanny was standing between the bushes and playing with her fingers. It seemed that she was pouring attack magic with a very serious face, but her power was so weak that it only tickled the troll. How would it feel to see a dog whimpering and attacking a ferocious bear? In this serious situation, he was about to laugh out loud.

“Just run away! I’ll take care of it.”

If the nanny would rather run away, he could kill the troll with his holy power while she’s not looking and that’s it. But why was the nanny picking pine cones from the branches instead of running away? Now was the time.

“Hurry…”

He was about to shout again to run away. A pine cone had disappeared from the nurse’s hand. There was no need to ask where it was sent.

“Hehe!”

Standing with its back against the cliff, the troll made a strange noise and opened its eyes wide. Soon the troll’s head was thrown back and his large nostrils flared. It went over there

“Huhchwi!”

Immediately the troll sneezed out of the valley and fired two pine cones like cannonballs. Elliot jumped as the monster staggered toward the cliff, unable to overcome the tremendous recoil of the sneeze. As soon as he jumped on the rock in front of him as a stepping stone, he kicked the troll in the chest with both feet.

“Keep it off!”

The troll floundered, unable to keep his balance, and eventually fell down the cliff with debris.

Thud!

As the troll’s body shook the ground, Elliot landed in front of the nanny. Raising his head, he was puzzled. The nanny’s eyes looking down at him were shaking.

“…What?”

“Oh, nothing…”

The nanny jerked her head away and suddenly she reached out her hand for his shoulder.

“What is this anyway?”

There was a tingling sensation between the armor plates behind his shoulders, and the nanny held out in front of him what she had pulled from his shoulder. It was the size of a thumb sting. At the tip, a drop of monster venom mixed with Elliot’s blood and turned dark red dripped.

“Damn it…”

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